Today’s Gazette reports on the Planning Board meeting scheduled for tonight. Capital’s Video’s Site Plan has been scheduled for review at 8:30pm, but the board may decide to “continue” (delay) voting on the plan in light of adult-use zoning now being considered by the City Council.“Even if a vote isn’t taken, [senior planner Carolyn] Misch said, the […]
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Capital Video has had a porn shop at 486 Bridge Street in Springfield since 1990. Many citizens and local businesses were unhappy about it from the start. To protest the shop, residents Leslie Pasquini and her husband Ronald “helped garner 600 signatures sent to [District Attorney William M.] Bennett.” (Union-News, 1/24/92, p. 20)City Councilor William […]
Continue reading Springfield Citizens Beat Back an Expansion of Their Capital Video Porn Shop
Michael Pill, the attorney for pornography franchise Capital Video Corporation, handed out a memorandum (PDF) at the October 19 City Council meeting that seriously misrepresents the facts and issues at stake in the controversy over Capital Video’s plans to open a 6,200-square-foot adult emporium at 135 King Street, adjacent to a residential neighborhood. Dr. Pill (he has […]
Today’s Gazette reports… The tug-of-war between the city and Capital Video Corp. intensified Tuesday after the Cranston, R.I.-based company filed new plans that could trigger a zoning freeze just as the city is poised to consider regulating porn shops.The latest filing with the city’s planning department involves what are called ‘approval not required’ plans. City […]
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In written correspondence with Carolyn Misch, a Northampton Senior Land Use Planner, Capital Video fills out the details of its plans for 135 King Street. We present it here for public consideration. This document includes diagrams of the site.Capital Video Plans for 135 King Street – September 2006 (PDF)On page 2 of this file, Ms. Misch […]
Porn advocates say it celebrates the beauty of the female form, that it is not violent or racist. Let us now celebrate women with a tour through Capital Video’s Wethersfield (CT) porn shop, where NPN bought a large batch of magazines in September.The pictures below are the first of a selection we present for you to […]
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Some porn shop defenders have said that now that Capital Video dropped viewing booths from its Northampton plans, there’s nothing to get excited about. But plans can change.NPN visited Capital Video’s Wethersfield (CT) store in September. The clerk there said the store had been in operation for about 13 years. Only last year, however, did […]
Continue reading Capital Video Added Viewing Booths to its Wethersfield Store Just Last Year
By popular request, we provide here a summary of the present situation and suggest what people can do to preserve the health of the area around 135 King Street. In late June, Capital Video Corporation, a major pornographic video retailer and producer, signaled that it wanted to open a “big-box” adult video store at 135 King Street […]
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Today’s Gazette features a front-page article on the proposed new ordinance to regulate the size and location of adult businesses:“Mayor Clare Higgins and two city councilors are calling for a zoning amendment that could derail plans for an adult video and magazine store on King Street…“If the proposed ordinance becomes law, it would stand in […]
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Today’s Gazette publishes a letter to the editor from Diana Jo Davies of Northampton:“Recently, I went to the Web site of Capital Video because a branch of this large enterprise is planning to locate close to downtown Northampton. Capital Video is a big pornography company. While looking over this site, my most prominent impression was […]
Continue reading Letter to Gazette: “Porn company’s products degrading to young women”